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Friday, November 21, 2014

People often mistook Public Provident Fund or PPF for Employee Provident Fund or EPF, though both are provident fund and backed by the government of India, they are independent of each other. The main difference between PPF and EPF is that former is totally controlled by you and only you can make a contribution on that account, on the other hand, EPF is for both you and employer to contribute money.

Friday, November 14, 2014

TL;DR: You can now invest more than 1 lakh rupees on your PPF account, thanks to increased limit in 2014 budget. Earlier this limit was only 1 lakh but now it is raised to 1.5 lakh and so without doing any extra trick, as shown in this article, you can now invest more than one lakh in your personal public provident fund account.